While there is no doubt of the importance of food and diet when it comes to gut health, it can sometimes ‘steal the spotlight’ entirely, meaning that other important factors get overlooked.

A food diary is an important and potentially very useful tool to help you become more conscious of what you are eating, get to know your body and its responses, and spot patterns that can be very revealing for your health. Here is all you need to know to get started: what to include, how to track, and how to analyse it all.

Receiving a diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis can feel very overwhelming. Written from a patient’s point of view, this is some of what I wish I had been told when I was diagnosed with IBD 20 years ago, and what anyone who has been recently diagnosed should know now.

When you are trying to "eat for health" and avoid unnecessary toxins and overall unwanted 'nasties' in your diet, it's good to know which foods have higher/lower pesticide residues. The EWG’s lists for 2021 have arrived. What do they tell us and how should we interpret them?

Thanks to a new study, we can now add gut health benefits to avocado’s health-promoting powers. Turns out, regularly eating avo helps keep your gut happy in more ways than one.

You can’t have a healthy body without a healthy mind. How you approach “healthy eating” matters enormously, both in terms of enhancing its effectiveness, but also for safeguarding against it turning into obsession.

Vitamin D has been in the spotlight recently as a result of a study suggesting that it helps fight Covid-19. But it does a lot more than that! It has many key roles to play in the body and is important for immunity, gut health and more.

Keeping hydrated is important for everyone, but especially so during these hot summer months, and for anyone who is losing fluids, whether due to a stomach bug, or as a result of a health condition like IBD. But there’s more to hydration than just drinking lots of water.

It’s easy to get lost in the weeds of which foods are ‘good’ and which are ‘bad’, but every now and then it’s important to remind ourselves of some simple universal basics about food and eating, and how it’s not that complicated after all.

Navigating the many different dietary protocols and the mountains of contradictory dietary information out there can be exhausting! How do you know which is right? By finding what works best for you as an individual, even if that doesn’t fall neatly in line with a dietary ‘label’.

My personal experience of how I ended up needing emergency ileostomy surgery, and all that followed.

All you need to know when it comes to preparing for ileostomy surgery, and what to expect post-op.